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Last Monday evening, at her apartment on Fifth Avenue, Georgette Mosbacher hosted a dinner honoring the eldest son of Rafik Hariri, the Lebanese prime minister who was slain six years ago last week.

But Ms. Mosbacher–who has served as the resident doyenne of New York’s Republican donors for the past two decades–couldn’t resist a moment of fretting about domestic politics with one of her guests, the corporate raider and a fellow donor, Carl Icahn.

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